Kathy Bates biography
Actress. Born Kathleen Doyle on June 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bates graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in theater, and after stints as a cashier at New York's Museum of Modern Art and a singing waitress in a Catskill resort, she distinguished herself in 1983's 'Night Mother, for which she earned a Tony nomination; as Lenny McGrath in Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart, and as the abused waitress Frankie in Terence McNally's Off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune -- a part which was written especially for Bates and won her a prestigious Obie award.
Actress. Born Kathleen Doyle on June 28, 1948, in Memphis, Tennessee. Bates graduated from Southern Methodist University with a degree in theater, and after stints as a cashier at New York's Museum of Modern Art and a singing waitress in a Catskill resort, she distinguished herself in 1983's 'Night Mother, for which she earned a Tony nomination; as Lenny McGrath in Beth Henley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Crimes of the Heart, and as the abused waitress Frankie in Terence McNally's Off-Broadway play Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune -- a part which was written especially for Bates and won her a prestigious Obie award.
Kathy Bates
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